Essays on GoldsmithClarendon Press, 1946 - 200 pagine |
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Pagina 23
... play the flute , to angle in summer , and to tell ghost stories by the fire in winter . He tried five or six professions 10 in turn without success . He applied for ordination ; but , as he applied in scarlet clothes , he was speedily ...
... play the flute , to angle in summer , and to tell ghost stories by the fire in winter . He tried five or six professions 10 in turn without success . He applied for ordination ; but , as he applied in scarlet clothes , he was speedily ...
Pagina 112
... PLAY To the Same THE English are as fond of seeing plays acted as the Chinese ; but there is a vast difference in the manner of conducting them . We play our pieces in the open air , the English theirs under cover ; we act by daylight ...
... PLAY To the Same THE English are as fond of seeing plays acted as the Chinese ; but there is a vast difference in the manner of conducting them . We play our pieces in the open air , the English theirs under cover ; we act by daylight ...
Pagina 176
... play by Hugh Kelly , of whom Johnson unkindly said that he had written more than he had read . The ' immense run ' of the play is an example of Macaulay's love of exaggeration ; the play was produced just six nights before Gold- smith's ...
... play by Hugh Kelly , of whom Johnson unkindly said that he had written more than he had read . The ' immense run ' of the play is an example of Macaulay's love of exaggeration ; the play was produced just six nights before Gold- smith's ...
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EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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